Friday, September 20, 2013

This is my attempt at drawing Ulrich Popoca. Who is he ? I'll let Josh Reynolds, his creator, explain :

'Ulrich Popoca is the junior ambassador from the court of Hueyi Tlatoani Ahuitzotl V, Lord of the Horizons, Scion of the Sun, emperor of the Ameriquetzlan Empire and its Expanses
to the court of Victoria Gloriana Regina, queen of Greater Britain,
Alba and Eire. The son of an Ameriquetzlan nobleman and a woman from
Vinland, Popoca has a fascination for European culture that serves him
in good stead as he attempts to navigate the Byzantine political web
that is the Court of St. James. He’s also something of an amateur
sleuth, prone to sticking his nose in where it doesn’t belong.'

He's a character in a number of cool stories. I like the way this one turned out.

Monday, September 16, 2013

One benefit to being horrendously ill is that there's little you can do except sit still and not do much. The 'not much' I have been able to do is move the pen on my drawing tablet and FINALLY get this piece of cover art done !

Here's the base art :

And here's the final piece with the added text :

Not bad. I think the gun turned out well - though I made some mistakes with the colours going on the wrong layers which made shading really difficult. I like the Tharronian case sticker on the right of the case too. The leaflet was going to be some tourist thing - Interesting Things to do on Tharronia ! - but in the end it made a better assassination floor plan thing.

I don't know about the text placement - but I think it's in the best place it can be. It makes the whole thing a bit 'busier' than I would like, but them's the breaks.

Sunday, September 15, 2013

I have been really REALLY sick today. I mean REALLY sick. I think I picked up the virus that my eldest son had a few days ago. Man - the poor little guy ! This thing has really knocked me on my arse, I can't imagine how he coped with it !

Anyway - I've been working on this since Friday :

I would have linked to add some colour - but it was hard enough to get this much done ( my head is really aching ! ). The door and adventurer are scanned directly from paper, and the goblins are computer 'inked' from rough scans.

Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Okay - this one took me longer to get here than I would have liked. Busy weekend and I wanted to do this one to a decent standard - I tried a few times to get the basic body shape right, and in the end I had to copy from a figure from a picture online :

Catwoman - probably my favourite comic book character after Batman. Not quite a canon Catwoman - but I think she turned out ok.

Monday, September 02, 2013

On getting some good constructive feedback from a friend of mine ( thanks Will ! ), I've darkened the extrusion material a bit to get more contrast with the text facing - so 'outcast' doesn't look like 'outlast' ! :

I was going to mess around with the point light a little - but I didn't have time this morning !